Children view a holiday window at Wieboldt’s department store on State Street on Dec. 22, 1969. A railing was placed in front of the window to hold back the crowd. (Dave Nystrom, Chicago Tribune)

The week before Christmas finds the Loop jam-packed on Dec. 17, 1949. Here’s the afternoon crowd on State Street, struggling almost shoulder to shoulder. (Chicago Herald-American)

The week before Christmas finds the Loop jam-packed on Dec. 17, 1949. Here’s the afternoon crowd on State Street, struggling almost shoulder to shoulder. (Chicago Herald-American)

Secret Santa rematch!!! Thanks @sraffetto6

Help, I thought everything was done? I am confused,I posted my thanks to my rematch Santa and did everything I was suppose to do

It took over a month but my Secret Santa package finally arrived!!

Gift from Secret Santa arrived! Thank you for kitchen knives I’ve needed for a long time & Peanuts movies!

Making Secret Santa friends. Today I received an envelope filled with Reddit Xmas stickers from a fellow Redditor in Germany. Best of all was the mailing stamp of Apollo 11. A gift like this deserves to be reciprocated.

My rematch Secret Santa is all heart!!! Thank you, thank you!!!

Oh Snap secret santa sent beautiful oven mitts and gorgeous souffle dish. First attempt at making a chocolate souffle.

Just in time for a reading!

Mary Joe Wolf, 3, is shown in the arms of Santa Claus, alias Isaac Newman, while her mother, J. A. Wolf, shops in Chicago, circa December 1930. (Chicago Herald and Examiner)

A Maxwell Street vendor tries to entice late Christmas shoppers with ornaments and dolls on Dec. 24, 1944. (Swain Scalf / Chicago Tribune)

Christmas shoppers board a motor coach with their arms full of holiday purchases from Loop stores at State and Madison streets on Dec. 10, 1937. (Chicago Tribune historical photo)

ALWAYS!

Anyone else lose their scissors 30 times while wrapping gifts??

First timer packing up a box of goodies to send to Connecticut … couldn’t pass up the fun wrapping paper! 🙂🙂

see this is why i like you dell :DDD yeah etain has ~issues~ but by all accounts she got a pretty unhelpful master and an insufficient amount of love and care and life lessons /: ((honestly her master sounds like qui-gon on steroids but that’s just me)) and i could go off once more about how i love the jedi as individuals but as an order….it’s so flawed…..it’s just so flawed ((and not just in repcomm where there was a very obvious effort to lay blame on the jedi order to explain why the clones would go through with order 66 sans chips. like. every area of star wars, be it movies, eu, tcw, anywhere - it’s  f l a w e d  but ANYWAYS))

pls do adopt etain and laseema :D they would love it and you’d be so good for them

Thank you so much mister Santa man sir. Crazy month huh?